Identifier

FBI_00051

Title

Summer of 1963 Black & Communist Surveillance

Creator

Detroit FBI Field Office

Description

Intelligence regarding Communist activity that took place in Detroit over a three-month period. Informants disclosed details of several meetings, demonstrations, and conversations, specifically those regarding the Communist Party and Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement.

Source

100-HQ-3-Subfile116-Section10-NR1, 14 October 1963, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Communist Party, USA - Negro Question", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.

Theme

Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance

Type

Government Records

Level 1 Tag

Race

Racism

Racialization

Social Movements

Surveillance

Government Correspondence

Activism

COINTELPRO

Level 2 Tag

Civil Rights Movement

Black Power

Racial Unrest

Profiling

Informants

Infiltration

Abuse by Government

Race & Ethnic Identity

COINTELPRO - CPUSA Negro Question

Level 3 Tag

CPUSA

Claude Lightfoot

Carl Winter

John F. Kennedy

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Date

1963-10-14

Location

Detroit, MI

Rights

Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act